Forgiveness Unforgettable

Nikki Lee Brannon's memoir begins in rural southern Alabama, where she grew up amid violence, financial hardship and sexual abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. Her mother, Marie, held the family together through a faith that gave the children something steady to hold onto. Nikki and her six younger siblings lived with constant fear as their father's cruelty grew worse. Instead of becoming the angry, rebellious child that such a childhood might predict, Nikki was shaped by her mother's example. The book follows the hardest moment of her life, when she came face to face with her father and had to confront what forgiveness would demand of her.